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2010604132010. ISBN-13: 9781584779704; ISBN-10: 1584779705. Stein Jacob A. Eulogy of Lawyers: Written by a Lawyer. Clark: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. 2010. xix 317 pp. Preface by Bryan A. Garner President Law Prose Inc.; Distinguished Research Professor of Law Southern Methodist University Dallas Texas; Editor current editions of Black's Law Dictionary. ISBN-13: 9781584779704; ISBN-10: 1584779705. Paperback. Corners bumped page edges soiled. Else very good. $19.95 In 1936 Piero Calamandrei an Italian lawyer and law professor published Elogio dei Giudici Scritto da un Avvocato a wry collection of maxims anecdotes and observations on the nature of the legal process. Translated in 1946 as Eulogy of Judges Written by a Lawyer it gradually acquired a reputation among sophisticated legal circles as the best lawyer's book ever written. Written by a self-described member of the "Piero Calamandrei Freemasonry Society" Eulogy of Lawyers revives the spirit of its great predecessor while shifting the focus to the other side of the bench. "Stein is a rare breed: a superb noted advocate - one of the finest of his day - who is also a literary essayist. I can think of only two comparable predecessors: Lord Brougham and Clarence Darrow." Bryan A. Garner Preface xii-xiii. Jacob A. Stein has for over 60 years conducted a trial practice. He has been an adjunct professor at American University Law School George Washington University Law School and Georgetown University Law School where he has taught for the last 21 years. He has been president of the District of Columbia Bar. He has served on various judicial committees connected with the Federal Judiciary. He was appointed in 1985 to serve as the United States Independent Counsel to inquire as to the suitability of the President's choice as Attorney General of the United States. His articles have appeared in The American Scholar Times Literary Supplement The Washington Post The Wilson Quarterly the Washington Lawyer the Green Bag Litigation and other publications. His books include Legal Spectator & More 2003 The Law of Law Firms 1994 Closing Argument: The Art and the Law 1969 and other titles. unknown books
18582203405D. Lothrop & Co 1858. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jacket spine edges rubbed rear hinge starting. 1858 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 15 218 pp. "Abbott is most well known for the Rollo books. These didactic little books were vehicles to teach morality to youngsters. Of the several series that Rollo either starred in or was a secondary character the most popular and well known was the ten book Rollo's Tour of Europe Series. In these tales Rollo and Mr. George toured Europe learning more about character and morality than they learned about the individual lands that were visited. D. Lothrop & Co hardcover books
18632311937New York: Sheldon & Company 1863. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Small stain on front board light general wear. 1863 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 252 pp. 10 pages of publisher ads follow text. Engraved frontispiece title page and plates. "The Florence Stories is a six volume series written by Jacob Abbott. As with many of Abbott's series this is a travelogue series and the title character with companions travels to various sites. The destinations are not as important however as the simplistic lessons of morality and character that are learned by the traveling youngsters. Florence her brother John her cousin Grimkie and her mother Mrs. Morelle Mr. Morelle was away on business had adventures stretching from their home in the Hudson River area of New York to Scotland the English Channel Rome Paris etc."--Jacob Abbot .com Sheldon & Company hardcover books
187216203New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket solid book moderate wear at extremities minor spotting to covers slight fraying to cloth at top front corner ffep torn out but with no apparent weakening to binding; gilt lettering/decorations on front cover and spine still bright and attractive. Science for the Young Series engravings Discussion of the fundamentals of geology "prepared with special reference to the young and written to a considerable extent in a narrative form" to provide "some substantial and thorough instruction in respect to the fundamental principles of the sciences treated of in the several volumes." The six-page section of advertisements in the rear of the book includes a listing for the two previous titles in the "Science for the Young" series "Heat" and "Light" both issued in 1871; a subsequent 1873 volume dealt with "Force" and was apparently the final entry in the series. . Harper & Brothers hardcover books
185822915Boston: D. Lothrop & Co 1858. Later printing. Green cloth with red & gilt decorations at spine & upper board. VG spine ends frayed/bpt/period pos at ffep/corner wear. 220 4 pp adverts at rear. Illustrated. 12mo. 18.5cm x 12.5cm. <br/><br/> D. Lothrop & Co hardcover books
1876AB1001New York:: Harper & Brothers 1876. 1876. Small 8vo. 347 1 4 pp. Original red blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine; spine ends worn. Very good. Abbott was born in Maine and went to Bowdoin College. He was prolific as a writer making numerous books of juvenile fiction brief histories biographies and religious books for the general reader. King Richard II 1367-1400 was also deposed from the throne in 1399. His demise was at the whim of Henry IV who offered him a chance to live at first but earlier supporters of Richard tried to place him back on the throne and thus to remove that threat Henry saw that he died in prison. Harper & Brothers, 1876. hardcover books
1965693601965. ADAMS James Truslow and Jacob E. Cooke. THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY. A History of the United States. The Record of 1964. A continuation of the seven-volume March of Democracy series. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1965. 8vo. blue cloth. Ex-library. Very good plus. unknown books
2010164173Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Museum of Art 2010. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran July 11 through October 11 2009 Essay by Julie Bryan-Wilson. Features the text of a conversation between Lisa Anne Auerbach and Jacob Proctor. Includes numerous color illustrations list of previous exhibitions and selected bibliography. A fine copy in French style wrappers. University of Michigan Museum of Art unknown books
2004216847San Francisco: Tachyon Publications 2004. ii 42p. 5.5x8.5 inches very good first edition booklet in stapled light-blue pictorial wraps. Excerpted chapter from jazzman Bechet's autobiography "Treat it Gentle" concerns his Creole grandfather in the Bayou of Louisiana. Tachyon Publications unknown books
1961S11041Moscow:: Academy of Sciences 1961. 1961. 8vo. 172 4 pp. Frontispiece publisher's note laid-in. Quarter pebbled brown cloth over paper-backed boards; covers rubbed. Text in Russian. SCARCE. Very good. "Jons Jacob Berzelius 1779-1848 was a Swedish chemist . . . who worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation and is together with John Dalton Antoine Lavoisier and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry." web-source. Academy of Sciences, 1961. hardcover books
19441090358vo. London: Secker & Warburg 1944. 8vo 4 153 pp with 4 illustrations. Second edition published six months after the first and on wartime paper: as usual this is now browned at the edges although not severely on this copy. In original pale green cloth generally good with just a pale dampmark along the bottom 1/2" of the front cover. § Bentley BB 1288 B. “One of the most illuminating books on Blake". Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1998Embry 186106St. Martin's Press 1998. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. St. Martin's Press, 1998. First U.S. edition. unknown books
185044130New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1850. Red cloth stamped in gilt to the spine. Average wear; p.o. name to ffep; small Ives & Streeter bookseller label to fpd; minor occasional foxing. Good. 2 vi 7 - 202 6 adverts 4 blank pp. B/w frontispiece and intratextual engravings. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
196910153.2Waltham Mass: Mark Press 1969. 2nd Printing limited to 300 copies. Brown cloth binding lettered in gilt to spine. A VG copy. Some light rubbing to extremities. Internally clean and bright. 142 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Mark Press hardcover books
1997Embry 117923Little Brown & Co. 1997. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W illustrations. Little, Brown & Co., 1997. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1997701323Boston: Little Brown. 1997. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Little, Brown paperback books
19712635921971. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Quite a moving a beautifully crafted memorial address given by A. L. Rowse after the death of medieval scholar Ernest Fraser Jacob. Very Good binding. unknown books
1973175737Washington DC: The Corcoran Galery of Art 1973. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran December 15 1973 through January 27 1974. Includes 35 black and white illustrations biography and bibliography. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some slight soiling. The Corcoran Galery of Art unknown books
1980009062New York: KTAV Publishing House Inc 1980. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xiv 266 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minor sunning to spine and minimal shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. KTAV Publishing House, Inc Hardcover books
1999026860Stanford: Stanford University Press 1999. xxi 373p. b/w map stiff wrappers Contraversions; Jews and other differences. Stanford University Press unknown books
1991005928Ames: Iowa State University Press 1991. 1st Edition. xiv 122p. b/w illus. original blue cloth. Iowa State University Press unknown books
1993407094New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art 1993. A fine copy. 10 x 10 inches. 11 44 pages. Color illustrations. Pictorial boards. One of 3000 copies published for this exhibition. <br/><br/> New Orleans Museum of Art hardcover books
1988Embry 164097North-South Books 1988. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Color illus by Dorothee Duntze. North-South Books, 1988. First edition, first printing. unknown books
201421988Brooklyn: Long Island University 2014. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Thick paperbound quarto. The Spring 2014 issue of this poetry journal edited by Jessica Hagedorn. 130 pp. Very good clean copy in bound hand illustrated wrappers. <br/><br/> Long Island University paperback books